May Day

In 1889, the International Workers Congress established the Second International and selected May 1st as a day to mark the international struggle for labour rights – commemorating the date of a US general strike that had begun on that day a few years prior.

Since then, May Day has remained as a day of celebration for socialists, workers, and leftists alike – to remember the hard-won victories of the workers who came before us, and to organise around the struggles we face today.

Whether you’re fighting for a world free of war, sexism, racism, or myriad other means of oppression, socialists argue that the best means of mobilising is through our position as members of the working class.

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Women’s Liberation

Throughout the history of class struggle, women have always played a vital role – linking in their unique oppression under a sexist system with the wider class dynamics that perpetuate class oppression. Whether it be female garment workers kicking off the February 1917 revolution in Russia, support for miners on strike in Britain, or playing a crucial role in the Arab Springs, revolutions have always required working class women to take the lead.

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Anti-Racism

A system as exploitative as Capitalism relies on scapegoating a supposed “other” group to distract from its oppressive tendencies. But when working class consciousness has been at its sharpest, it’s always come hand in hand with unity across different racial groups, and those that initially seem unaffected rallying behind the fight against racism. From Walter Rodney to William Cuffay, anti-racist struggle must be at the heart of class struggle.

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Palestine

Vladimir Lenin claimed that imperialism is the highest form of capitalism, and since 2023 we’ve been reminded daily of the horrors this manifests as as Israel and it’s Western backers have restarted a bloody genocide that birthed the very settler colony in 1948. But despite the brutality of Israel’s massacre, we must not forget the bravery of Palestinian martyrs that have stood firm in their resistance.

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Disability & Neurodiversity

The most common disability worldwide is blindness, typically caused by unclean drinking water – a perfect example of how our system’s on short term gains impairs and disables people. Despite the fact that many people end up disabled with old age or injury, or suffer from severe mental health issues due to living in times of mass crisis, those with disabilities make up some of the most forgotten, unemployed, and scapegoated in society.

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Trade Unions

Social change isn’t made by individuals, but by social layers – specifically by classes. That isn’t to say an entire class will innately believe in the same radical politics, but the way to win more over to working class politics is primarily through class struggle. Marches and demonstrations have always been a huge part of this, but the working class is most effective when they’re organised by their occupations and able to withdraw their labour in order to fight for not only better work conditions, but for a better society at large.

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LGBTQ+ Liberation

Class society has long since pressured people into suffocating identities; colonisers and missionaries erasing LGBTQ+ identities in the Global South, rapid industrialisation replacing the privatised family with the nuclear family, and counter-revolutions reversing gains such as Magnus Hirschfeld’s Centre for Sexual Sciences. In a world ridden of such oppression, we would see a flourishing exploration of relationships, sexuality, and identity. Amidst the repression we see today, it’s important we never stop fighting for this goal.

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